Employment Tribunals Service

(asked on 25th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal claims were made in each year between 2010 and 2022.


Answered by
Mike Freer Portrait
Mike Freer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 2nd February 2023

The number of claims submitted to the Employment Tribunal from 2010 to September 2022 are:

Calendar Year

Claims Made

January to December 2010

193,584

January to December 2011

221,177

January to December 2012

177,339

January to December 2013

153,323

January to December 2014

52,110

January to December 2015

74,283

January to December 2016

86,867

January to December 2017

115,679

January to December 2018

119,157

January to December 2019

109,432

January to December 2020

118,214

January to March 2021

24,174

June to December 2021

47,183

January to September 2022

57,285

Data to March 2021 extracted from legacy database. Data from June 21 to September 2022 extracted from the reform database in line with published statistics.

A claim may be brought under more than one jurisdiction or subsequently amended or clarified in the course of proceedings but will be counted only once. Data from published statistics.

The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as this data was run on a different date, specifically for this request.

Data is taken from a live management information system and can change over time.

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.

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